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Mash 10: Get Paid To Mash

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Mashable has an interesting offer for its readers. Write a well-written ‘Top 10…’ article between 600 and 1300 words and you might get paid around $0.07 per word.

Before you write anything, send an outline of your idea, plus a selection of startups you want to include, to the Gmail address in the sidebar. A link to your previous work is also useful. Let’s see if this works.

If you’re interested in social networking, or social media in general (which is why you’re tuning into 901 am) click to learn more.

Originally posted on January 20, 2007 @ 5:33 pm

2008 Presidential Technology Race, Who’s Using What?

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Discursive has done some very interesting analysis (for the geek in you) of what technologies the current presidential candidates are using to power their websites. The criteria for these websites is simple. They have to be scalable, usable, and able to handle quick bursts of unexpected traffic.

Here’s a quick breakdown (click to enlarge):

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Head over to Discursive to learn more.

Originally posted on January 20, 2007 @ 4:46 pm

Create Your Own Blog Network

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Blog networks are becoming increasingly popular. The most prominent ones are b5media, Know More Media and 9rules, and the up and coming 451 Press.

Blog networks are mutually beneficial because they allow you to pool resources to help each individual member of the network to be more successful.

Blog networks can help increase traffic to your blog through marketing, promotion and generating more inbound links between blogs in the network. Blog networks can also provide support and training to bloggers. It’s about building a community that helps one another become better bloggers through best practices, brainstorming ideas, discussion and more.

So I hear you want to build your very own blog network but just don’t know how? Let Ben Yoskovitz help you out.

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Originally posted on January 18, 2007 @ 11:36 am

MySpace to offer spyware for parents

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As a result of continuing pressure from the media, politicians, and other groups, MySpace has finally given in. The site is planning to offer parents the ability to download and install software that will allow them to monitor their children’s activity on the site.

WSJ reports,

Parents who install the monitoring software on their home computers would be able to find out what name, age and location their children are using to represent themselves on MySpace.

It is important to note that the software, called ‘Zephyr’ has previously been offered to other social networking sites, but the offer was rejected dude to privacy concerns and the software’s incompatibility with the sites’ terms and conditions.

The Social Web has more.

Originally posted on January 19, 2007 @ 9:11 am

Proxy sites help access banned blogs

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With India, Pakistan, China, and Iran (among other countries) imposing bans on what you can blog about, what you can say, and what sites you can access, bloggers are increasingly turning to proxy sites to access forbidden content and venues to speak their mind.

For example, `elgoog’ allowed users in China to use Google after it had been blocked there. Similarly, several proxy sites came up in Pakistan after a ban on BlogSpot last year.

Proxy sites allow users to access a webpage that is blocked by accessing the forbidden site through another (unblocked) site. While officials set up hurdles to curtail the freedom of speech, savvy internet users find new ways to bypass them. As stated by one official from a leading internet service provider in India, these bans are hardly working.

While we have blocked the Web sites from our side, anyone can access them through thousands of proxy sites freely available on the Internet. These servers mask the identity of the blocked site. So even if the user is accessing the banned site, the identity of the proxy server is what is relayed back to an ISP.

Learn more.

Originally posted on January 21, 2007 @ 11:56 pm